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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Woodside Kid: [QB] An interesting question would be why a person's Matrix self-image should match his actual physical form? I can't imagine why the machines would waste time on such a trivial matter (particularly since these people would, ideally, never be unplugged from the Matrix). Since a baby would simply be a replacement battery, it theoretically need not even be related biologically to its parents inside the Matrix. That could be one hell of a psychological blow to someone just released into the real world; just imagine someone who was a white supremacist in the Matrix waking up to find he's really black! I also have a problem with the whole idea of human bodies providing the power for the machines. For one thing, the useful output of a person's biology (beyond that needed to keep the organism alive) can't be all that much. Given the general weakness of Neo's body when it was decanted, I think it's safe to say his muscles received little or no use during his life. This limits his energy output largely to body heat; I don't know about you, but I certainly can't heat my apartment in winter all by myself. With a relatively small amount of net energy per person, the power station would need a [i]lot[/i] of warm bodies to power even a single city. The question then becomes one of food supply. Even lying inert, there is a minimum amount of food required to keep the body alive. The problem with this scenario is the lack of sunlight. No sun means no photosynthesis, and the whole food chain collapses (to say nothing of the oxygen/carbon dioxide cycle). I know the first film said the people were fed on the liquified bodies of the dead, but I don't think the math adds up. Here's an example. Assume you have all 6 billion people on earth plugged in, each with an average body weight of 65 kilos. Assume a caloric intake of 1000 calories per day per person, which can be gained from eating 354 grams of beef steak. That translates to 2.126 billion kilos of meat per day. At 65 kilos per person, that's the equivalent of 32.7 million dead bodies daily, assuming you consume the whole shebang. At that rate, you'd need to kill off nearly twice the population of the world each year to feed the people in the Matrix. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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